Seminar
Seminar: Dr. Lukasz Ciesla – Biology is Chemistry: the Quest to Better Understand the Universal Language of Nature
Math and Science Education Building 1001According to the NASA definition, life is a self-sustaining chemical system capable of the Darwinian evolution. Living systems constantly interact with animate and inanimate matter to maintain their highly organized and far from thermodynamic equilibrium status (homeostasis). Small changes to this organized state may result in the system to be living no more. A multitude of chemical interactions occur between living systems and their environments to maintain homeostasis. Our lab has been eavesdropping on some of these chemical interactions to [...]
Seminar: Dr. Edward Burress – High Elevation is an Ecological Dead End for Appalachian Salamanders
Math and Science Education Building 1001The southern Appalachian Mountains are a global biodiversity hotspot for salamanders. Mountains may promote high species richness by acting as evolutionary catalysts and/or refugia. How mountains influence other dimensions of diversity – ecological and phenotypic – is uncertain. Here, we assess how abiotic factors that contribute to microhabitat availability vary with elevation gradient throughout the Appalachian Mountains, surrounding foothills, and lowlands. We compare this to elevational patterns in microhabitat use, phenotype, and macroevolutionary features (adaptive peaks), in a group encompassing [...]
Seminar: Dr. Hazel Barton
MSB 1001Seminar: Dr. Saima Shahid
Math and Science Education Building 1001Seminar: Dr. Kaleb Heinrich – Biology TA Professional Development
Math and Science Education Building 1001Seminar: Irene Sanchez-Gonzalez & Annie Blalock
Math and Science Education Building 10012023 Darden Lecture : Dr. Forest Rohwer
Math and Science Education Building 1001Viruses, Microbes, & Coral Reef Arks The reception for the speaker will follow in the Smith Hall Grand Gallery of the Alabama Museum of Natural History.